Month: April 2019

(This article was originally intended to go up on Wednesday, but it was somewhat overtaken by events before it was finished.)This week has seen another of those strange coincidences by which a ...

There’s been some commentary in the weekend papers to the effect that Scotland isn’t going to get a referendum before 2021, and possibly not after that, because the British government ...

Well no one saw that coming, he said in a voice dripping with sarcasm. David Lidington,Theresa May’s bag-man, came to Scotland today because the UK government felt that a spot ...

Alert readers will know by now that there’s nothing the Scottish media – and the Scottish Daily Mail in particular – likes more than printing scary-sounding figures with no context ...

The first minister announced that the SNP will introduce legislation for a referendum next month, and confirmed plans for it to be passed by the end of the year Nicola ...

The first set of viewing figures for the new BBC Scotland channel have been released, and as expected they’re pretty dire. The highest that the new channel has achieved is ...

“Nobody can be in any doubt whatsoever that people voting for Amendment D supported the tests, because they don’t,” says Dr Timothy Rideout The sucessful amendment to the SNP conference Growth ...

Extremist anti-independence propaganda organisation "Scotland in Union" have released their latest Survation poll, and not for the first time it's backfired on them spectacularly by suggesting that the SNP are ...

In my naivety, I had thought that the difference between the Holyrood and European Parliament voting systems would mean that I wouldn't have to spend any time over the next ...

CommonSpace editor Ben Wray takes a look at Nicola Sturgeon’s speech to the SNP’s spring conference on Sunday HOW do you address the problem of a Commission that divided your ...